Claude Plymate calls his backyard home observatory the clubhouse that he never had as a child. The solar astronomer and his wife, Teresa Bippert-Plymate, ordered the white 10-by-10-foot domed ...
SPRINGFIELD — The Stellaphane Observatory National Historic Landmark of Springfield received an early present this holiday season: a donated observatory dome that was almost sold as scrap metal. The ...
As ever-larger telescopes are launched into space or built at high-altitude sites, these observatories still have wonders to share with visitors and astronomers alike. An archival photograph of the ...